A Florida man is accused of fatally stabbing his roommate when she stopped by his home on Saturday morning to say goodbye before moving back to Pennsylvania where she grew up, according to sheriff’s investigators.

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In February 2015, Herman’s 53-year-old father Randy Herman Sr. was accused of killing his 50-year-old girlfriend Gail Monahan in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania.

You can be arrested for DUI while riding a bicycle in Florida; there's no requirement for a vehicle to be motorized. Because horses are a means of transportation, I guess I'm not surprised that you could get a DUI for one. She was also riding the horse on a highway, which you aren't allowed to do.

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If she fights it in court, it'd be interesting to hear the arguments.

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In the past, Byrne has been arrested on five felony charges and 10 misdemeanor charges, including animal cruelty and drug possession, Polk County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Brian Bruchey told the newspaper.

A Florida man who rescued a squirrel during Hurricane Matthew is now weathering a different storm altogether — fighting his condo association for the right to keep the rodent as an emotional support animal.

According to the article, it turned out he did indeed have the proper paperwork; he just didn't have it with him.

On the one hand, I can see getting the tattoo on the principle that one might not have the paperwork immediately present, and/or that even if the paperwork was on site the emergency crew might not otherwise look hard enough for it. On the other hand, the doctors had a point that if one's changed one's mind, it's a lot easier to change a piece of paper than a tattoo, and so the tattoo might remain even if the decision had been changed.

For the last several years of her life, my mother carried her non-hospital DNR everywhere she went. If we went out to dinner, she'd doublecheck that it was in her bag, and that I knew where it was.

He’s going to prison for shooting a cop. The cop taunted him with K-Y Jelly in court.

Rojas’ shots missed the officer’s son, AP reports, but ended up hitting the officer three times, according to police. The officer shot back, but Rojas fled the scene by stealing another vehicle, and then barricaded himself in a house. Other officers pursued him, and shot Rojas three times before he was apprehended.

When the officer spoke at Rojas’ sentencing this week, he pulled out a bottle of the personal lubricant K-Y Jelly, the Florida Times-Union reports.

“I brought a little gift for you,” the officer told Rojas, according to Action News Jax. “You will need it where you are going.”

Investigators say a Florida man rigged the door to his home with devices designed to electrocute his pregnant estranged wife, reports CBS affiliate WKMG. Electrical devices had allegedly been hooked up to the door's lock and handle. Deputies said attempts to unlock or open the door could have caused severe injury or even death.